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Last Chance to Register for Webinar, Business Meeting

A webinar on Data Linkage & Uses of Administrative Records at the U.S. Census Bureau will be held next Wednesday, December 13.  In addition, APDU?s Annual Business Meeting will be held on December 12. This webinar, free to all APDU members, is a great opportunity to recap 2017, look forward to 2018, and provide feedback to the Board of Directors.  Register today for both!

 

News

 

ADRF Working Group
Ken Poole, of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) is leading the Administrative Data Research Facilities (ADRF) Network Data Sharing Governance & Management working group. The group met for the first time on November 13 and is working proactively and collaboratively toward a June 2018 deliverable. Contact Monica King to get involved.

 

Meet the New Commissioner of Labor Statistics

William W. Beach, an economist who has spent most of his career at right-wing think tanks, was nominated October 26, 2017, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor. Who is he?

 

Making an Impact with Data

The key to student success is an institutional culture steeped in data, from faculty and administrators all the way down to the students themselves.

 

A 2020 Census Flop Would Pose a Danger to U.S. Business

The president and CEO of The Advertising Research Foundation writes in this op-ed of the business case for the Census Bureau.

 

BLS Technical Advisory Committee Nominations

The BLS is soliciting new members for the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). Five current membership terms expire on April 19, 2018.

 

New & Updated Data Sources

 

Open Data Directory Collects Standards from Around World

Its creators say the website, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, is the first of its kind.

 

Visualization of the Week

 

 

Visualizing Europe?s Air Quality
The European Environment Agency has created a data visualization called the European Air Quality Index that maps air quality levels for European countries in real time. The visualization uses data from over 2,000 monitoring stations across Europe and ranks air quality on a scale from ?good? to ?very poor.? Users can click on each air quality indicator to observe the concentrations of pollutants at a particular location as well as how these concentrations and air quality has changed over time.

 

Notable Data Publications

 

 

Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about?  Just email us and we?ll include it here.

 

Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment

 

APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment.

Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):

 
Bureau of Economic Analysis
  • Quarterly Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (January 2, 2018)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Annual Refiling Survey (January 2, 2018)
  • Consumer Expenditure Surveys (January 2, 2018)
  • Current Population Survey (January 2, 2018)
  • Leave Supplement to the American Time Use Survey (January 2, 2018)
  • Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (January 2, 2018)
  • Quick Business Survey Operations Test (January 2, 2018)
  • National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (February 2, 2018)
Census Bureau
  • Annual Retail Trade Survey (January 2, 2018)

December 7, 2017

 

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